Originally Posted by
757Driver
Disagree. Continental's name has been dropped on my last 3 visits down there during FPA chit chat and shockingly it wasn't in a positive light.
I too wear my pin proudly but legacy bling and CAL bashing seem to affront SFO. I honestly could care less as these dweebs are just holdouts from a bygone era that they can't seem to accept is gone or wasn't ever as great as they make it out to be.
Guys wearing the old leagcy wings are on equal footing to the scabs wearing pins. I'm L-UA, was sold a bill of goods in the ESOP fable, took over a 50% pay cut in BK, stove piped by my union and lost my pension. I'm happy to put the tulip in the rear view and look down the road. Last time I looked I couldn't tell what paint was on the tail from the cockpit.
I've heard the bashing and knowing the guys on my side of the branch of the tree they are usually the pilots no one wants to fly with anyway. Wouldn't matter where they were prior to the merge they would be just as loud mouthed if they were from the other side. It's a personality defect. The only cure is their medical out or retirement.
If you are wearing the old wings from whatever legacy, you are in "tool of the decade" territory.